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Posted by Zach on July 23, 2010, at 7:05 am

The abruptness of health care reform?!?

Found on RedState.com (emphasis mine): Around that time, my husband who is an Emergency Physician was aghast with the abruptness of HR3200, and was also, for the first time, becoming politically aware. Together, we opened our eyes and began to get actively involved in the political process.

Considering the fact that health care reform [...]

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Posted by Zach on July 2, 2010, at 10:53 am

Healthcare.gov – check it out!

Want to know more about how health care reform will affect you?

Go to HealthCare.gov and get all the information you want about health care reform and what it means for you. You can use the search by zip code function to help you figure out all the health coverage options for available to [...]

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Posted by Zach on May 25, 2010, at 5:45 am

Tea Party logic

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Posted by Zach on May 4, 2010, at 5:47 am

Anthem backs down from 39% rate hike in California

Here’s some good news to come out of the Democratic health care reform legislation:

The request by Anthem Blue Cross to increase premiums by as much as 39% for its California customers has been withdrawn by the company, citing provisions in the new health care reform law. Under the provisions of the Patient Protection [...]

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Posted by Zach on April 28, 2010, at 6:03 am

The DOJ/GOP connection

As first reported by One Wisconsin Now and touched on by MadCityMan yesterday, records obtained through open records laws show Ray Taffora, the top deputy to Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, sought direction from Ben Cannatti, the political director of the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) prior to Van Hollen’s attempt to join [...]

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Posted by MadCityMan on April 27, 2010, at 4:28 pm

WI GOP AG Van Hollen Taken to Task for Anti-HCR Coordination with GOP RSLC

Think Progress has a fascinating story about WI GOP Attorney General JB Van Hollen’s coordination with the GOP’s Republican State Leadership Committee trying to coordinate a frivolous lawsuit against the Federal Government following the implementation of health care reform. [...]

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Posted by Zach on April 24, 2010, at 6:19 am

Wellpoint targeted breast cancer patients for rescission

Though they lived and worked nearly two thousand miles apart, Yenny Hsu, who lived and worked in Los Angeles, and Patricia Reilling, an art gallery owner and interior designer from Louisville, Kentucky have more in common than even they realized. Shortly after they were diagnosed with breast cancer, each of the women learned that [...]

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Posted by Zach on April 23, 2010, at 8:11 am

Chickens for Checkups?!?

Sue Lowden, a Republican running to unseat Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada, has a real old-timey solution for a modern problem: Americans who can’t afford health insurance should barter with their doctors for health care with things like chickens and house painting. I don’t know about those of you reading, but I don’t know [...]

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Posted by Zach on April 20, 2010, at 6:02 am

Jail time for health insurance evaders? Faux News says, “YES!” despite the facts

A couple of weeks ago, Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who’s about as conservative a lawmakers as there is, debunked the idea that anyone who doesn’t buy health insurance coverage under the new health care reform legislation will be subject to imprisonment. After an audience member at a town hall meeting held by [...]

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Posted by MadCityMan on April 16, 2010, at 9:55 am

Obama Issues Order to Allow Gay Partner Hospital Visitation Rights

President Obama might not have yet eliminated DADT given all the posturing of the troglodytes in the Senate and on the right, but he did take much needed action in asking that the Department of Health & Human Services issue a ruling to stop hospitals from preventing gays and lesbians from visitation rights with their partners. [...]

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